Word: forgets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...merciful to the cruel will eventually be cruel to the innocent." Nothing lately has shown the cheap side of forgiveness like Bill Clinton's calculated plays for public pardon, culminating in a dizzying switcheroo after the Senate impeachment vote. Asked by Sam Donaldson if he could "forgive and forget," Clinton answered earnestly, "I believe any person who asks for forgiveness has to be prepared to give it," a response that seemed almost as disingenuous as it was perfectly crafted. Of what value a forgiveness that is so easily manipulated for political gain...
Chen wasn't kidding about her unease over her career. Yan recalls that after a bad film experience Chen would "bang her head against the wall. We'd talk about her trying to go to medical school or do a law degree. But I always said, 'Bullshit, you'll forget it all tomorrow.' And of course she always...
...about which numbers could turn up in Martian textbooks and which numbers would never turn up there. Of course we would not really be talking about numbers, but rather about strings of symbols that to us look like numbers. And yet, might it not be easier for us to forget about what these strings of symbols mean to the Martians and just to look at them as plain old numerals...
...after nightfall. Other unhappy Quadlings have cited the far trips to athletic practices across the River. Most, however, are simply frustrated at the inaccessibility of their belongings throughout the day. One junior transfer sums up the frustration leading up to her decision to exit Currier House: "You inevitably forget a book, a problem set, a Tutorial paper. Then you've got to go chasing back to the Quad. It's huge pain...
While these questions will be the ones pressing us as the summer comes and goes, there are other, more immediate reasons baseball is coming at just the right time. Soon enough, we will be able to forget our midterm grade in History 1653, "Baseball and American Society, 1840-Present" by, of course, going to a game at Fenway...